News

The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) has announced that Erin McLaughlin of New York, NY, will be the recipient of the 2011 SOTA Catalyst Award. The award was created by SOTA in 2010 to recognize a person thirty years of age or younger who demonstrates significant achievement and future promise in the field of typography. Erin will present her work and receive the award at TypeCon2011: Surge, taking place in New Orleans, July 5th–10th.

'Making Faces' follows the work process of the late Canadian graphic artist Jim Rimmer through the steps in creating a metal font. The film is shot and directed by P22 founder Richard Kegler in HD Video. It started as an idea to document the making of the first ever font that would be simultaneously released in metal and digital formats. The font "RTF Stern" was released in 2008 through P22 type foundry with Jim Rimmer casting metal fonts to order for much of 2008.

The Type Directors Club is proud to announce, from June 6th to June 10th, the Type Masters Week in New York City. By celebrating 65 years of typographic excellence, the Type Directors Club will be offering the unique opportunity for you to participate in one day workshops with the Masters; Erik Spiekermann, Cyrus Highsmith, Ale Paul, and Luc(as) de Groot.

One Day Workshops, 8:30am – 4:00pm
The following workshops will take place at Type Directors Club, 347 West 36th Street, Suite 603, New York, NY 10018.

UXB the first release of astroluxtype, a division of astroluxdesign, brings a hard edge feel to the basic military style stencil design. These fonts work together or separate to create the look of a stencil cardboard cut out, that then gets a spraypaint treatment with the use of its companion font. The two part application can create more than a few cool effects for your next design emergency. UXB Stencil is the paneled cut-out street style font and UXB Spray is the interior component that as the appearance of being CREATED with the stencil cut out. UXB Stencil and Spray will lend a dynamic look to your graphic design projects that need a typographic solution with a rough urgency. Available and on sale now at http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/astrolux/uxb/

Aventura is burlesquely round, stylishly seductive, eternally sugar-fixed, and loving to a fault. Plenty of stylistic alternates are included to heighten the mood or soften it. Either way you look at it, there's a lot of love in the air.

Country’s Leading Newspaper Enlists Linotype’s Nadine Chahine to Design Typeface in Memory of Gebran Tueni, An-Nahar’s Former Editor and Publisher

Oh mountain, no wind can shake you” – this is the Lebanese saying that inspired Linotype typeface designer Nadine Chahine as she created the Gebran2005™ typeface. Designed for An-Nahar, Lebanon’s leading Arabic-language daily newspaper, Chahine’s creation is part of a major redesign of the publication, available in its new look beginning today in Beirut.

“We will continue to shine a bright light on the importance of free speech in the Middle East that will not be dimmed”

Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE), a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, and its subsidiary, Linotype GmbH, have introduced version 3.0 of FontExplorer® X Pro for Macintosh® platforms. The latest version is now available from www.fontexplorerx.com.

Realist from MartinPlusFonts.com is a straightforward typeface that speaks in a simple voice without being stern. It’s ideal for corprate design as well as editorial work, for headlines that speak of simplicity or for product design with an exclusive touch. It works for all expressions where the message plays the leading role.Three Widths: Typical for a grotesque is the availability of an additional Wide version, while the humanist sans serifs tend to be more narrow. So it made much sense to draw three widths: Realist, RealistNarrow, as well as a RealistWide.Eight Weights: The availability of a good amount of weights makes the designer’s work so much easier. This is why Realist comes in eight weights: Thin, Light, SemiLight, Regular, Medium, Bold, ExtraBold and Black.

Fonts.com Web Fonts now provides advanced features for controlling how Web fonts are loaded into Web pages.

Customers can now use the WebFont Loader, an Open Source JavaScript™ library that provides a variety of options for Web developers to control the Web font loading experience. The WebFont Loader is served through the Google AJAX Libraries API.

A fresh, curly & delicious sans serif.Merced is a sans serif font that can be given different uses for its wide variety of alternate types. Its main virtue is the endless number of possibilities that the font gives to write a word, text or paragraph.

WOBURN, Mass., April 5, 2011 – Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE), a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, has introduced the iType® FontTuner™ application, a solution for improving the look of fonts on particular display screens by adjusting the thickness and sharpness of characters rendered from the fonts. Targeted to manufacturers and developers of consumer electronics devices, FontTuner operates on TrueType® fonts enabled to work with Monotype Imaging’s Edge™ Technology, which combines hinting and patented rendering techniques to achieve uniform, legible text.

WOBURN, Mass., April 5, 2011 – Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE), a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, has introduced the iType® FontTuner™ application, a solution for improving the look of fonts on particular display screens by adjusting the thickness and sharpness of characters rendered from the fonts. Targeted to manufacturers and developers of consumer electronics devices, FontTuner operates on TrueType® fonts enabled to work with Monotype Imaging’s Edge™ Technology, which combines hinting and patented rendering techniques to achieve uniform, legible text.

Berlin, April 4, 2011 — FSI FontShop International launched a new FontFont.com, the online home for the largest library of contemporary type designs.

The new FontFont.com is a complete reconstruction of the digital foundry’s website. Everything is new and enhanced, from the visual design and navigation to the search functionality and shopping experience. But the most radical improvement is in the presentation of the fonts themselves.

Extra large typeface samples appear in FontFont.com’s new Browse section

Additionally, they have also extended the deadline for SOTA Catalyst Award entries to Friday, April 8th. If you are under 30 years of age and creating original work in type design, type history, or other areas related to typography, please consider entering.

Comic Sans Pro Adds OpenType Features to Extend Versatility of Comic Sans and Inspire New Creativity and Expression

WOBURN, Mass., April 1, 2011 – The Comic Sans® typeface, one of Microsoft’s most popular designs, has received a makeover courtesy of Monotype Imaging. Today the company has introduced the four-font Comic Sans Pro family of typefaces.

This one-day conference will investigate the status of graphic design history today, with an emphasis on the making and using of it. It will review the state of affairs, looking at where we are, and questioning where we could go next.

Mazúrquica is an extra condensed sans-serif typeface, ideal for titles and headlines looking for impact and style. Designed in three weights: Ligera (light), Media (medium), Pesada (heavy), allowing its use for many applications. Its capitals features a set of ligatures, giving a particular look to upper case text.

Weingut Script Flourish is a decorative display font with high contrasts, perfectly drawn to the tiniest details. The font is trimmed to fairly large font sizes and is highly suitable for chapter titles or book jackets as well as Headlines, Invitations and wine labels, although also impressing with an astounding legibility in small typesettings. Inspired by the hand drawn Blätterschrift from the 19th century Mettenleiter’s Schriftenmagazin, its basic structure is related to the English Script. The creative process started in summer 2009 and after 600 hours of work, over a 2 year period, Weingut now unfolds to reveal all its charms.
Created by Georg Herold-Wildfellner.

The Society of Typographic Aficionados is happy to announce the second annual SOTA Catalyst Award for young people who have created original work in type design, type history, or other areas related to typography. The award recognizes a person 30 years of age or younger who shows both achievement and future promise in the field of typography.

We are thrilled to announce that the highly regarded collection of fonts from Sudtipos is now available for purchase and download at AscenderFonts.com.

As readers of Typophile may already know, the Sudtipos font collection features the work of four talented co-founders: Ale Paul, Ariel Garofalo, Diego Giaccone and Claudio Pousada. Sudtipos is most well known for its amazing variety of script typefaces, most of which contain extensive OpenType® typographic features.

We are currently reviewing proposals for contemporary and historical presentations and panel discussions, focused hands-on workshops in both the digital and non-digital realms, and a variety of programming for the Type & Design Education Forum and other special events.

P22 Type Foundry in association with Virgin Wood Type announces the release of a completely new wooden version of the Czech Modernist font Preissig Scrape. The bold expressionistic Preissig design is offered as a wood type font to letterpress printers and collectors and is now available directly from Virgin Wood Type.

P22 Preissig Scrape was digitized in 1997 by P22 type Foundry from samples of an alphabet designed and hand cut by Vojtech Preissig in 1914 for a book project that was never completed. The book called "The House" featured lino cut illustrations and the lettering reflected the angular and organic lines of the lino cuts.

Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: TYPE), a leading global provider of text imaging solutions, has released the six-font Bradley Type™ family of handwriting fonts into the company's ITC® typeface collection. The newest additions can be licensed and downloaded from Monotype Imaging's Fonts.com, ITCFonts.com and Linotype.com stores. Bradley Type is also available for website design from Fonts.com Web Fonts.

Designed by calligrapher, lettering artist and type designer Richard Bradley, the latest design is intended to be a versatile counterpart to his ITC Bradley Hand™ fonts, released in 1995. "Typefaces are rarely designed in response to public demand, but that's exactly what led Richard back to the drawing board to create Bradley Type," said Allan Haley, director of words and letters at Monotype Imaging. Bradley said, "After listening to so many graphic designers ask for a version without ITC Bradley Hand's rough edges, I knew I had a mandate."

We are proud to announce the release of Fiancé, a new playful and lovely swashy extra bold font plenty of alternates. Designed by the Chilean and talented artist Miguel Hernández who join us after a long time admiring his work. Take a look and let us know if you like it!